Fourteen classic private-eye stories (including one written especially for this book) about one-armed private investigator Dan Fortune, whose world is filled with danger, deceit -- and striking contrasts. Edgar-Winner Michael Collins is aware of the inequities in modern society, and his stories are dominated by a social conscience rare in popular literature. The book includes an introduction by Professor Richard Carpenter, prefaces to each story by the author, and a complete checklist of Dan Fortune novels and short stories.
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Fourteen classic private-eye stories (including one written especially for this book) about one-armed private investigator Dan Fortune, whose world is filled with danger, deceit -- and striking contrasts. Edgar-Winner Michael Collins is aware of the inequities in modern society, and his stories are dominated by a social conscience rare in popular literature. The book includes an introduction by Professor Richard Carpenter, prefaces to each story by the author, and a complete checklist of Dan Fortune novels and short stories.
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New. Book 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy, still in shrinkwrap, of the trade Paperback. The world of one-armed private investigator Dan Fortune is filled with danger, deceit and striking contrasts. The 14 stories in Fortune's World range from the mean streets of New York City's Chelsea district, to the bleak winter world of Syracuse, New York, to sunny and sometimes violent South America, to Santa Barbara, California, where Fortune now has his office. And the contrasts are not only in the settings, for Michael Collins is aware of the inequities in modern society, and his stories are dominated by a social conscience rare in popular literature. "Fortune's World" contains all the previous uncollected Dan Fortune short stories as well as a new story written especially for this volume. The introduction is by Professor Richard Carpenter, and the book concludes with a complete checklist of Dan Fortune novels and short stories.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Bound in heavy slate grey cloth, lettered in gold along the spine. Includes a stapled card panflet with a bonus story. Limited editon 17/200. Signed and numbered by the author. Mylar wrapped to preserve.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) A very crisp and clean signed first edition, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! Signed and numbered 121 by the author! This is a very very rare and hard-to-find signed Limited Edition! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 250 very clean, unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled pages! "This Limited Edition of Fortune's World by Michael Collins is one of 200 clothbound copies signed and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a separately printed pamphlet, The Dreamer, a Slot-Machine Kelly Story by Michael Collins. The world of one-armed private investigator Dan Fortune (born Fortunowski) is filled with danger, deceit----and striking contrasts. The 14 stories in Fortune's World range from the mean streets of New York City's Chelsea district, to the bleak winter world of Syracuse, New York, to sunny and sometimes violent South America, to Santa Barbara, California, where Fortune now has his office. And the contrasts are not only in the settings, for Michael Collins is aware of the inequitities in modern society, and his stories are dominated by a social conscience rare in popular literature."
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Number 25 of 200 copies numbered and Signed by the author. Comes with a separately printed pamphlet, "The Dreamer, A Slot Machine" by Michael Collins.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Limited Edition. Signed by Author First edition. Fine, unread copy. LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 200 copies (this being #92), SIGNED and numbered by Collins. 14 stories. The world of one-armed private investigator Dan Fortune is filled with danger, deceit and striking contrasts. The 14 stories in Fortune's World range from the mean streets of New York City's Chelsea district, to the bleak winter world of Syracuse, New York, to sunny and sometimes violent South America, to Santa Barbara, California, where Fortune now has his office. And the contrasts are not only in the settings, for Michael Collins is aware of the inequities in modern society, and his stories are dominated by a social conscience rare in popular literature. "Fortune's World" contains all the previous uncollected Dan Fortune short stories as well as a new story written especially for this volume. The introduction is by Professor Richard Carpenter, and the book concludes with a complete checklist of Dan Fortune novels and short stories. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "The Dreamer, A Slot-Machine Kelly Story". Introduction by Richard Carpenter; and a Dan Fortune checklist. Sold out from publisher.
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Fine. No Jacket. Fourteen Dan Fortune mysteries, introduction by Richard Carpenter, with a checklist of Dan Fortune novels and short stories. Fine, as new condition.
